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Everything on this page, plotted around the node — filter the layers to see one thing at a time
Getting here
Transit within 1 km, cycling at the corner, and what's within a 1.5 km walk
Transit & cycling
- Subway
- Summerhill Station (Line 1)82 m; Rosedale Station (Line 1)515 m; St Clair Station (Line 1)684 m
- Streetcar
- 512 nearest 732 m
- TTC bus
- 97821374881926 nearest 92 m
- Blue Night
- 312320
- Nearest stops
- 5 surface stops within 300 m — Yonge St at Alcorn Ave - Summerhill Station
- Cycling
- Cycle Track on Yonge St installed 2021
- Bike Share
- Summerhill Subway Station 65 m · 11 docks · 15 stations, 224 docks within 1 km
Straight-line distances to the nearest stop or station entrance in each agency's current schedule feed, including temporary diversions.
Within walking distance 1.5 km
- Schools (24)
- Cottingham Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 363 m
- The York School - Mdl and Sr CampusPrivate · 379 m
- de Lasalle College SchoolPrivate · 552 m
- The Linden SchoolPrivate · 577 m
- McDonald International Academy SchoolPrivate · 836 m
- Rosedale Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 883 m
- and 18 more
- Community centres
- Parks (43)
- Pricefield Road Playground208 m
- Lionel Conacher Park268 m
- Marlborough Place Parkette343 m
- Ramsden Park574 m
- Robertson Davies Park597 m
- David A. Balfour Park606 m
- and 37 more
- Library
- Toronto Public Library Deer Park branch805 m
- Toronto Public Library Yorkville branch1.1 km
- Toronto Public Library Toronto Reference Library branch1.1 km
- Places of interest
- Toronto Reference LibraryLandmark · 1.1 km
- The Japan FoundationMuseum · 1.2 km
- Village of Yorkville ParkNature/ Park · 1.3 km
- Spadina MuseumMuseum · 1.4 km
- Gardiner MuseumMuseum · 1.5 km
Around the corner
Food premises, public washrooms, child care and emergency services — distances are straight-line from the node
Restaurants & food
Toronto Public Health inspects 25 eating places within 300 m of this corner, plus 2 grocery and convenience stores; within a kilometre the count is 132. The nearest is Boxcar Social, 44 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in August 2026 with 3 infractions noted.
| Nearest food premises | Distance | Latest DineSafe inspection |
|---|---|---|
| Boxcar Social · 1208 Yonge St | 44 m | Passed, Aug 2026 · 3 infractions |
| Sash · 1133 Yonge St | 51 m | Passed, Jun 2025 · 1 infraction |
| Impact · 1222 Yonge St | 94 m | Passed, Feb 2026 · 2 infractions |
| Seahorse Restaurant · 1226 Yonge St | 114 m | Passed, May 2026 · 1 infraction |
| Manita Rosedale · 1164 Yonge St | 120 m | Passed, May 2026 · 1 infraction |
| Petite Thuet · 1162 Yonge St | 125 m | Passed, Jul 2026 · 4 infractions |
| Petite Thuet · 1162 Yonge St | 125 m | Passed, Nov 2025 · 1 infraction |
| Sorrel Restaurant · 1158 Yonge St | 134 m | Passed, Feb 2026 · 2 infractions |
Every establishment Toronto Public Health inspects under DineSafe, screened by name to leave out kitchens inside schools, care homes and offices. A conditional pass means infractions had to be fixed by a follow-up visit, not that the premises is closed.
Washrooms & water
The nearest public washroom is Ramsden Park Outdoor Rink Washroom, 587 m away, open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. A drinking fountain is 237 m away at Pricefield Road Playground.
- Ramsden Park Outdoor Rink Washroom · 1020 Yonge St
9 a.m. to 10 p.m.587 m - Ramsden Park Washroom · 1020 Yonge St
9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible650 m - David A. Balfour Park Washroom · 75 Rosehill Ave
9 a.m. to 10 p.m.680 m
- Drinking water
- Pricefield Road Playground drinking fountain, dog fountain · 237 m; Lionel Conacher Park bottle filling station · 284 m
Park washrooms, washrooms in City buildings and automated street toilets, with hours and status as the City publishes them (park washrooms are seasonal). Malls, shops and TTC stations are not included.
Child care
12 licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 1,188 spaces; seven accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Trust Child Care Inc. (134 m, 150 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten).
- Trust Child Care Inc. · 29 Birch Ave
150 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten · $10-a-day134 m - Cottingham Child Care Centre · 85 Birch Ave
80 spaces · preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day363 m - Unicorn Day Care Centre · 240 Avenue Rd
39 spaces · toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day728 m - Hopscotch Montessori Canada · 55 St Clair Ave W
140 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age783 m
Licensed centres only; spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.
Emergency services
The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 311 (545 m), the nearest police station 53 Division (2.8 km) and the nearest ambulance station 766 m away.
Nearest station by straight line — not a response time, and not necessarily the station that would answer a call.
Apartment buildings nearby
RentSafeTO-registered rental buildings within 1 km, with the City's latest evaluation score
Within a kilometre there are 49 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 4,999 rental units, 2.1× the median for a Toronto intersection — four social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 1233 Yonge St (262 m, 37 units, 4 storeys, built 1980), which scored 74 out of 100 at its August 2026 RentSafeTO evaluation. One building of the 49 scored below 70; the average is 90, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 107 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 42 fire-code violations are open across them.
| Nearest buildings | Units | Storeys | Built | Score | LTB orders | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1233 Yonge St · Hd Property Management | 37 | 4 | 1980 | 74 · Aug 2026 | 0 | 262 m |
| 28 Macpherson Ave · Ipg Property Management | 17 | 3 | 1930 | 86 · Jul 2026 | 2 | 267 m |
| 32 Rowanwood Ave · Hgh Design Build Corp | 14 | 4 | 1920 | 95 · Jul 2026 | 0 | 296 m |
| 22 Woodlawn Ave E · Biddington Property Management Corp. | 25 | 5 | 1986 | 95 · Aug 2025 | 0 | 346 m |
| 7 Jackes Ave · Sterling Karamar | 267 | 28 | 1969 | 82 · Aug 2024 | 11 · 8 fire | 361 m |
| 130 Macpherson Ave · Castlehill Property Management | 26 | 3 | 1948 | 75 · Jul 2025 | 1 | 455 m |
| 44 Jackes Ave · Quadreal Property Group | 411 | 24 | 1967 | 89 · Nov 2025 | 4 | 489 m |
| 28 Balmoral Ave · Akelius Canada Ltd | 27 | 3 | 1930 | 92 · Nov 2025 | 0 | 544 m |
The City's RentSafeTO register — rental apartment buildings of three or more storeys and ten or more units — with the score from each building's latest City evaluation (out of 100; poor scores trigger a full audit). LTB orders are final Landlord and Tenant Board orders naming the address (Jan 2026 – Jun 2026); fire-code violations are open items in Toronto Fire Services' inspection data. Each building links to its full record on LandlordReport. Condominiums and houses are not registered.
Parking
Every mapped lot within 2 km, Green P with peak occupancy, City EV charging and bike parking
| Green P car park | Distance | Spaces | Peak occupancy |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 Price St · Surface | 209 m | 71 * | — |
| 1010 Yonge St. · Surface | 629 m | 48 * | — |
| 21 Pleasant Blvd. · Garage | 641 m | 557 * | — |
| 30 St. Clair Avenue West · Garage | 803 m | 173 * | — |
| 251 Maherson Ave · Surface | 853 m | 40 | 24% (Q1 2026) |
Nearest lots: 41 m away, ≈54 spaces; 50 m away, ≈12 spaces; 85 m away, ≈16 spaces; 94 m away, ≈17 spaces; 106 m away, ≈33 spaces; 112 m away, ≈29 spaces. More EV charging: 10 Delisle St (924 m, 4 ports); 41 Inglewood Dr (1.1 km, 2 ports); 74 Yorkville Ave (1.1 km, 9 ports).
Lot count and area from the City's topographic mapping of parking-lot footprints (every visible surface lot, public or private); spaces are estimated at one per 30 m² of lot. Lots not run by Green P are private, commercial or institutional and may be for customers or residents only. Green P spaces and average daily peak occupancy from the Toronto Parking Authority's quarterly dataset (* = capacity from the 2019 car-park list; rates are not shown because that list is stale — check Green P). EV chargers are City-operated only; on-street and underground parking are not included.
Traffic volume
The City's latest turning-movement count — 8-hour, Mar 29, 2022
Traffic is heaviest from the south: 3,603 northbound vehicles entered from that leg, 47% of the total, against 173 from the east. Most cyclists arrived from the north (146 of 286). The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 1,105 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m. and 1,046 from 4:15 p.m. Heavy vehicles made up 3.7% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 4 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2022, not today's volume. It was an 8-hour count, which is not directly comparable with the 14-hour counts the City has used since September 2023.
Approach figures are vehicles entering the intersection from that leg over the whole count. A count is one day's traffic, not an annual average; the City recounts on an ad-hoc schedule.
How fast traffic moves here
Midblock speed counts on the intersection's streets, the nearest school-zone speed sign, and traffic calming
On Yonge St between Roxborough St W and Rowanwood Ave, 319 m from the corner, a 24-hour count in June 2023 put the average speed at 31 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 40 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 45 km/h or more. That segment carries about 8,400 vehicles a day. Birch Ave between Yonge St and Gange Ave measured slower: 25 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 34 km/h (Nov 2022).
| Street segment | Counted | Vehicles / day | Average | 85th percentile | 95th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Birch Ave · Yonge St – Gange Ave · 101 m | Nov 2022 · 3 days | 921 | 25 km/h | 34 km/h | 38 km/h |
| Yonge St · Roxborough St W – Rowanwood Ave · 319 m | Jun 2023 · 24 h | 8,365 | 31 km/h | 40 km/h | 45 km/h |
Midblock counts are automatic counters laid across the road for one to seven days; the 85th-percentile speed is the figure engineers use — 85% of drivers were at or below it. Counts are ad hoc, so some are years old. A midblock reading is not the speed through the intersection itself, and posted limits are not in the count data.
All police-reported collisions
Every collision reported to Toronto Police within 65 m, any severity, 2016–2025
The worst year was 2024, with 6 collisions; 2025 recorded 3. 3 collisions (9%) involved an injury; the citywide share is 15%. 8 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 25% of collisions, a higher hit-and-run share than the city's 16%. 1 collision involved a pedestrian or cyclist (3%), typical for the city. Since January 2026, 2 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Jun 23, 2026.
By year
| 2016–2025 | Collisions | |
|---|---|---|
| All reported collisions | 32 | #2728 of 5,508 |
| With an injury | 3 | #3541 of 4,660 |
| Property damage only | 21 | |
| Fail to remain | 8 | |
| Involving a pedestrian | 0 | |
| Involving a cyclist | 1 | #2548 of 2,576 |
| Involving a motorcyclist | 1 | |
| With a fatality | 0 | |
| Severity not classified | 8 | |
| Since January 2026 (outside the window) | 2 | |
| All since 2014 | 46 | latest Jun 23, 2026 |
Source: Toronto Police Service, Traffic Collisions Open Data — every collision reported to police since 2014, within 65 m of this node. Records through Jun 30, 2026.
Killed or seriously injured
Collisions in which someone died or was seriously injured, within 65 m, 2016–2025 — the basis of the danger rankings
No collision involving a death or serious injury has been recorded within 65 m of this intersection since the record begins in 2006.
KSI = killed or seriously injured. A collision is counted if its recorded location is within 65 m of this intersection's centreline node, whether the police coded it as intersection-related or mid-block. Records can lag a year or more, so the current year is excluded from rankings.
Thefts reported at this corner
Thefts from vehicles and bicycle thefts that Toronto Police have offset to this intersection, 2016–2025
Two thefts from vehicles and two bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — about the median for an intersection with any reported theft.
By year
| 2016–2025 | Reported | 2023–2025 | Since Jan 2026 | Most often from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theft from a vehicle | 2 | 1 | 0 | house driveway/garage (1), street/outdoor (1) |
| Bicycle theft | 2 | 0 | 0 | street/outdoor (2) |
Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Aug 1, 2024. Police offset every occurrence to the nearest intersection before publishing, so these are thefts on the streets and premises around this node, not necessarily at the corner itself. Other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see Rosedale-Moore Park.
Nearby intersections
Questions
Is Yonge & Birch a dangerous intersection?
Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 32 lesser collisions. High counts usually track high traffic volume rather than a design flaw; volume is shown alongside so the numbers can be read in context.
How busy is Yonge & Birch?
A moderately travelled crossing. Its latest count is from Mar 29, 2022, 83% of the median for a counted intersection.
How fast do cars go at Yonge & Birch?
The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Yonge St between Roxborough St W and Rowanwood Ave (June 2023), found an average of 31 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 40 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.
Where can I park near Yonge & Birch?
The nearest Green P car park is 15 Price St (209 m away, 71 spaces). The City's mapping shows 728 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 29,380 spaces — 45 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 20 Delisle Ave. (924 m).
How do I get to Yonge & Birch by transit?
Summerhill Station (Line 1) is 82 m away; streetcar route 512 stop within 1 km, the nearest 732 m away; bus routes 97, 82, 13, 74, 88, 19, 26 within 1 km (nearest stop: Yonge St at Alcorn Ave - Summerhill Station, 92 m).
What restaurants are near Yonge & Birch?
25 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 132 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Boxcar Social (44 m), Sash (51 m), Impact (94 m), Seahorse Restaurant (114 m) and Manita Rosedale (120 m). Each one's latest inspection result is shown on this page; DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.
Is there a public washroom near Yonge & Birch?
The nearest is Ramsden Park Outdoor Rink Washroom, 1020 Yonge St, 587 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.). Next nearest: Ramsden Park Washroom (650 m); David A. Balfour Park Washroom (680 m). These are the City's own washrooms — in parks, civic buildings and automated street toilets — not those in malls, coffee shops or TTC stations.
Is there child care near Yonge & Birch?
12 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 1,188 spaces in total; 7 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Trust Child Care Inc. (134 m, 150 spaces), Cottingham Child Care Centre (363 m, 80 spaces) and Unicorn Day Care Centre (728 m, 39 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.
What apartment buildings are near Yonge & Birch?
49 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 4,999 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 1233 Yonge St (262 m, 37 units, RentSafeTO score 74), 28 Macpherson Ave (267 m, 17 units, RentSafeTO score 86), 32 Rowanwood Ave (296 m, 14 units, RentSafeTO score 95) and 22 Woodlawn Ave E (346 m, 25 units, RentSafeTO score 95). The average RentSafeTO score across the 49 is 90 out of 100; 1 scored below 70. Condos and houses are not on the City's register. Each building's full record — score history, LTB orders, fire-code inspections, permits — is on LandlordReport.
How many thefts are reported at Yonge & Birch?
Toronto Police place two thefts from vehicles and two bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025. Police offset every reported occurrence to the nearest intersection before publishing it, so the count covers the streets, driveways and parking around this corner rather than the corner itself. Break-ins, robberies and other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see the Rosedale-Moore Park page.
What neighbourhood is Yonge & Birch in?
Yonge & Birch is in Rosedale-Moore Park (City of Toronto neighbourhood 098). It is in Ward 11, University-Rosedale, represented by Councillor Dianne Saxe. The corner falls inside the Rosedale Main Street Business Improvement Area.
Sources
Every figure on this page comes from one of these datasets — how they are joined
- Traffic counts: City of Toronto, Traffic Volumes – Multimodal Intersection Turning Movement Counts, latest count Mar 29, 2022.
- Serious-injury collisions: City of Toronto / Toronto Police Service, Motor Vehicle Collisions involving Killed or Seriously Injured Persons, records through Aug 29, 2026.
- All collisions: Toronto Police Service, Traffic Collisions Open Data, records through Jun 30, 2026.
- Cameras: City of Toronto, Red Light Cameras.
- Speeds and calming: Midblock Vehicle Speed, Volume and Classification Counts.
- Around the corner: DineSafe (Toronto Public Health); Park Washroom Facilities, Washroom Facilities in City Buildings, Automated Public Toilets, Park Drinking Water Sources; Licensed Child Care Centres; Fire Station Locations, Police Facility Locations, Ambulance Station Locations.
- Apartment buildings: City of Toronto Apartment Building Registration and Apartment Building Evaluation (RentSafeTO), as compiled by LandlordReport with the Ontario LTB Order Catalogue and Toronto Fire Services inspection data (imported Sep 10, 2026).
- Thefts: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, occurrences offset by police to the nearest intersection, records through Aug 1, 2024.
- Ward and BIA: Wards and Elected Councillors (Ward 11 councillor), Business Improvement Areas.
- Getting here: TTC Routes and Schedules (GTFS), GO Transit GTFS, UP Express GTFS, VIA Rail GTFS, MiWay (Mississauga) GTFS, Durham Region Transit GTFS, Brampton Transit GTFS, York Region Transit GTFS, Bike Share Toronto, Cycling Network. Data provided with permission of Metrolinx where GO and UP Express appear.
- Walking distance: City of Toronto School Locations, Parks and Recreation Facilities, Library Branch General Information, Places of Interest and Attractions, Traffic Signals Tabular, Neighbourhoods.
- Parking: Topographic Mapping – Physical Area of Parking Lots, Green P Parking with Parking Occupancy, City-Operated EV Charging Stations, Street Furniture – Bicycle Parking, Bicycle Parking Racks, High-Capacity Bicycle Parking, Indoor Bike Stations.
- Coordinates: 43.68143, -79.39134 · centreline node 13461519.